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Ancestry/Genealogy

wishstar

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3. All of my female ancestors/relatives from Italy were listed by maiden and not their married names

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 04:48 PM

Jul 2018

I have found this practice during early 1900's on Ellis Island manifestos of using women's birth surnames rather than married names quite helpful in tracing the family lineages especially since there were so many common first names.

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Immigrant Name Changes [View all] no_hypocrisy Jun 2018 OP

Some reasons are simple and straight forward. Delmette2.0 Jun 2018 #1

Some, if not most of the Ellis Island name change stories are bogus. 3Hotdogs Jun 2018 #2

I have always thought that the stories of names being changed at Ellis Island to be PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #4

Ellis Island staff said that names could be easily changed once you left the island. 3Hotdogs Jul 2018 #5

Yep. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #6

All of my female ancestors/relatives from Italy were listed by maiden and not their married names wishstar Jul 2018 #3

I have name changes on both maternal and paternal sides. Ellis Island wasn't involved. LakeSuperiorView Nov 2018 #7